3/15/2011 CABLE AND ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE Executive Session

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o� # imp 411 ** 09 so �# �• so BLE MASHPEECABLEANDADVANCED TECHNOLOGY ADVISORY BOAR MINUTES OF EXECUTIVE SESSION QLD TUESDAY,MARCH 15,2011 TOWN HALL MEETING ROOM 1 Present; Andrew Eliason Lolita.McCray Peter Cohen Absent: Janes Chisholm Also Present: Joyce Mason,Town.Manager Andrew Eliason, Chairman,called the Executive Session of the MCAT Board to order at 2:50 p.m. for the purpose f discussing cable contract negotiations. Roll Call was taken. 4 Andrew Eliason advised that Kevin Lynch.ofthe Falmouth Cable Committee called and expressed an interest in having an informal discussion of gable committee members to discuss where the different communities stand in the licensing process. The reason Kevin Lynch called the meeting of the cable committees was because his Falmouth Cable Committee thought they were given short notice to review the proposed license for Falmouth and he was curious to Know where other communities stood in the process.' 'Andrew said it as then that he realized that he was remiss because he didn't realize we were this close to the enol point. Andrew liason said MCAT probably should have been making some recommendations regarding some of the technical issues in the license. Andrew said he thought if we-run this by Joyce there are some items that might be put before Peter Epstein. L.olita McCr y commented she thought that we ran things before Peter Epstein. Joyce Mason stated that MCAT was Kept in the loop as meetings progressed and as an example she said the Public Hearings in Mashpee when everything was supposedly entered into the record were conducted by MCAT;- here s in Falmouth the Selectmen conducted their Public Hearings. Andrew said he thought the Public Hearings were for the public comments and he didn't think MCAT was to communicate thea. F Joyce and the MCAT Board agreed that we are to move forward at this time